Scoil Chaitríona Junior

History of Scoil Chaitríona Junior

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The Parish of Renmore, as we know it today, was established in 1971.
Canon Jack O’Connor was its first parish priest and he quickly set about the task of building schools to cater for the rapidly growing population. Scoil Chaitríona Junior enrolled 104 boys and 103 girls on 2nd July 1973 under its first principal, Roisín Bean Mhic Cumhaill.
The other five teachers on the staff at the time were Mrs. Joan Ray, Mrs. Eileen O’Donnell, Mrs. Mary Smith, Sr. Noirín Concannon and Ms. Máire Geoghegan Quinn. There was one Second class, one First class, two Senior Infant classes and two Junior Infant classes.
In 1974 the Senior School opened using classrooms just completed in what is now the Junior School. In July 1975 the Senior School pupils and teachers moved into their own section of the school. Mr. Richard Burke T.D., Minister for Education, officially opened the new schools, and Most Rev. Dr. Michael Browne, Bishop of Galway, blessed the new complex on September 26th.

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School Calendar 2011 2012

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The pre-communion "Do This in Memory" Masses for 2nd Classes will take place on the following dates:

February 12th
April 1st (Palm Sunday)
June 10th (Corpus Cristí)

Staff at Scoil Chaitríona Junior

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At present there are 395 pupils and 34 teachers in the school
The staff is made up of:
1 administrative principal
19 mainstream class teachers
4 special class teachers
4 learning support teachers
2 English as a Second Language teachers
3 Resource teachers & 1 Part Time Resource teacher
2 Speech and Language therapists
9 special needs assistants
2 school secretaries (shared with Senior school)
1 caretaker (shared with Senior school)

School Uniform

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Girls: Royal blue pinafore, royal blue cardigan with white tipping, pale blue polo T-shirt
Boys: Grey trousers, royal blue jumper with white tipping, pale blue polo T-shirt
P.E. Uniform: Tracksuits (or school royal blue tracksuit) and runners
Uniform Stockists: Anthony Ryan's, Shop Street or National Schoolwear Centre, Tower House, Tuam Road

Daily Timetable

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School opens at 8.40am (for 8.50am start) and finishes at 1.30pm for infant classes, 2.30pm for first and second classes.

Time now is:

Protection for your computer

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Do your children have access to the internet at home?

Would you like to have some control over what sites they can access?

Follow our links at

http://scoilchaitrionajnrcomputerprotect.blogspot.com/

to find out how to put a free, safe and trustworthy filter onto your computer system.

Christmas Carol Service

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We had our carol service in the church last night.

It was a wonderful occasion.

Well done to all our singers and readers, you were fantastic!

Junior Spider Awards in the Helix

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See how we got on at the Junior Spider Awards in the Helix today.
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2011/12/junior-spider-awards.html
Well done to the pupils and teachers who represented our school so well in Dublin today.

Countdown to our Carol service on Dec 21st

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Our school carol service will be heldON: Wednesday, December 21stAT: 7pmIN: Renmore ChurchAll are most welcome to come!

We have a lovely school Advent Wreath. We know which candles to light each week in Advent!

Congratulations

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Great news: Our school website has received a nomination for an Eircom Junior Spider award!
Read about the Junior Spiders at http://www.juniorspiders.ie/. These awards are awarded at a national level to schools at primary and post primary level, and we are very honoured to be shortlisted for this award.
Well done to all teachers and students who keep our website up-to-date and looking interesting and colourful.
Well done to all parents, families, students and teachers who use our website to keep in touch with what happens on a day to day basis at school, and who use the links to continue learning at home.

More great news: Not only did we receive a nomination for our school website, but we also received two more nominations in the Best School Project category: One of these is for Our Butterfly page of the website http://scoilchaitrionajnrbutterfly.blogspot.com/ , and the other is for Ms. McLoughlin's page of the website http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/ .

We wish the very best of luck to our team of teachers and students who will travel to the Helix in Dublin on December 13th to represent our school at the award ceremony. We hope they wow everyone with their stands, showing other schools how we use our website and project pages and how easy it is to learn lots when using these websites.

Senior Infant Babies!

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Look at all the Senior Infants who have their birthdays in the past week or two. This is the biggest birthday cluster we have ever had. HAPPY BIRTHDAY to all of you!

Preparation Masses for 2nd Classes

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The pre-communion "Do This in Memory" Masses for 2nd Classes will take place on the following dates:

December 20th
February 12th
April 1st (Palm Sunday)
June 10th (Corpus Cristí)

Hurling

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Every Tuesday, we take part in hurling training. We are learning lots of new skills and having great fun. Gerry is our hurling trainer and he is very good. One day, we hope to be as good as him!

Aladdin comes to our school!

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Last Wednesday, we had a theater group come to our school. They put on a performance of Aladdin. We all really enjoyed the play and some children even took part.

Thriller!!

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A huge Well Done!! to all you wonderful dancers from 1st and 2nd classes. We really were "thrilled" today!!!

Well done too to our wonderful director, Ms. Lally.

We really really loved doing our SPOOKY dance!

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It is October and all classes are beginning to get ready for Hallowe'en. Watch out for great Hallowe'en art all round the school. The highlight of Hallowe'en for us is our annual fundraiser - our "Hallowe'en Walk". We will be dressing up for Hallowe'en and walking round Renmore on the morning of Friday 28th October. Thanks to all for help with the sponsorship money, and with the costumes. See you all on the 28th!

All 200 1st and 2nd class children will perform Thriller Dance Routine on the school yard after the Halloween Walk on Friday Oct 28th at approx 11:15 and again after lunch around 1:30 (weather permitting).

Be prepared to be scared at our Monster Dance!

School Closure

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Scoil Chaitríona will be used as a polling station in the upcoming Presidential Elections

on Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Our school will be closed on this day

Welcoming you back

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School re-opens for allon Thursday, September 1stat 8:50am

Our Past Pupil at the Special Olympics in Athens, Summer 2011

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New Parents' Association Committee

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We have a new Parents' Association Committee at Scoil Chaitríona Junior. Thank you to all who attended last night's meeting, and to those who are now on our Parents' Committee.

The new committee members are:

Chairman: Stuart McCamley

Vice Chairman: Nuno Das Neves

Sectetary: Maura Long

Treasurers: Hilda McGrath and Adele Briggs

Members: Carmel Gilmore, Adrienne McPartlan, William McDonagh and Paul Rush

Parking restrictions

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Dear parents,

In spite of repeated requests, parking in front of the school, on the road and on the verges, continues to cause concern in relation to the safety of the children coming to school.

We are required to remind you that under the by-laws fo the City Council the area at the front of the school on Renmore Avenue is strictly a NO PARKING AREA and is marked with double lines.

The safety and welfare of the children must be our principal concern, therefore, we request you to abide by these by-laws at all times.

Parking for the school is available in the church car park.

A range of sanctions including clamping is being investigated by the Board of Management in order to deal with the issue.

Thank you for your co-operation in this matter.

Yours sincerely
Malachy Thompson
Chairperson, Board of Management

Junior Achievement Awards

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Children from Scoil Chaitríona Junior present certificates to the GMIT volunteers who took park in the Junior Achievement Enterprise and Life Skills Programme.

Thanks to all involved.

We really look forward to our involvement in the next year's Junior Achievement programme.

School Holidays 2010/2011

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Oops, some mistakes in the original below:

There will be no early closing on Friday, 13th May or Friday 4th March

June bank holiday: We are off on Friday, Monday and Tuesday. Back to school again on Wednesday 8th June.

Feedback from judges

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Last term our school entered the Junior Spider awards. We were not chosen as the school with the best blog website, however we did get some really positive feedback. Here is what the judges said about us:

Plenty of information about the school on this blog site. Regular updates
keeps the site fresh and up to date.

Great use of links and other resources relevant to what the children are
learning (e.g. Sites to use with the Whiteboards). Very good website with
simple effective navigation and good use of photography too. Plenty of
information, all findable and browseable easily.

Health and Safety Notice

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In the interest of child safety dogs are not allowed in the school grounds (even if on leads).

Great news

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Big congratulations to Ms Tierney's senior infants who are through to the next round in the féile scoildrámaíochta with their play Taisteal. Another big congratulations to Darren in Ms Conneely's junior infant class who won "an aistoir is fearr" best actor. Well done to all three classes for wonderful performances on Tuesday in Inverin, and for representing our school so well. Maith sibh go léir!

Féile Scoildrámaíochta: Drama festival

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Tuesday, 15th February 2011

Well done to Ms. Conneely's Junior Infants, to Ms. Tierney's Senior Infants and to Ms. McLoughlin's Senior Infants who represented our school and performed so well at today's Féile Scoildrámaíochta. It was a terrific day - our double decker bus left to go to Inverin at 10:30am (with all costumes on and make-up done before we left). We really enjoyed watching the Snow White and the 7 dwarfs that were on before us, and we really enjoyed watching each others plays. All our plays went without a hitch. We are delighted.

Results for all the plays will be announced on Radio na Gaeltachta (an Irish Language radio station) on Friday at 6pm or 6:30pm. Teachers will know the results early next week. Well done to all our children, and to all the parents who provided the costumes, our fan club parents who came to support us, to Nessa, Maggie, Mrs. Phelan, Ms. Cunningham, Nora and Mrs. Carleton who did our make up and helped us so much on the day, and of course to Len for the fabulous sets and props.

Congratulations to all!

Happy New Year to our friends worldwide

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Well done to all!

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Well done to all who braved our freezing weather to come join us for our annual Carol Service.

What a special night!

Tonight's carol service was a huge success, thanks to all the parents, teachers, SNAs and most of all to the children who braved freezing conditions to come and sing for all of us. You were superb, and really helped to bring the message of Christmas to us all. May you all have a very happy and peaceful Christmas surrounded by those you love. Thank you to all.

Scoil Chaitríona Junior carol service

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Our carol service is on tonight!!!

Scoil Chaitríona Junior's

Carol Service

On: Tonight, December 21st

At: 7pm

In: Renmore church

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Getting closer to Christmas

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We have a lovely school Advent Wreath. We know which candles to light each week in Advent!

Tooth Day

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It is tooth day today. Have a look at this presentation for Junior and Senior infants http://www.dentalhealth.ie/download/pdf/toothday_2010_teachers_presentation_final_221110.pdf

or other publications on http://www.dentalhealth.ie/publications/list/toothday/

Here's another great link. This one is to the video story: Dr. Rabbit and the Legend of Tooth Kingdom http://www.colgate.com/app/BrightSmilesBrightFutures/US/EN/Kids/LegendVideoChapters/Chapter_01.cvsp

Here's another programme about looking after your teeth; http://www.irishhealth.com/clin/documents/mighty_mouth.pdf

Dick Whittington pantomime

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Ugandan display

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A day in the life of a Ugandan Child

We went to see Miss Tierney's Senior Infant class perform a play today in the halla. It was about a day in the life of a child from Uganda. It was very interesting. We saw how the children there begin the day with getting water from the well and collecting firewood to cook breakfast. The children then made their way to school and sang a lovely Good Morning song to the teacher. At break time the children had lots of fun playing together and they played with a ball made out of banana skins. We heard lions roaring and monkeys going wild. The children finished the play by singing and dancing to a lovely song about Africa. Well done to all the children in Miss Tierney's class. We really enjoyed your play.

Science and Technology Festival Event at our school!

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We had a visit from Armagh Planetarium Stardome to our school today, Friday, November 19th, during Science Week. Some of the classes got to visit the stardome, and the other classes did magnetism or electricity workshops. It was a fantastic event. Thanks so much to the planetarium, and to the Galway Science and Technology festival for this wonderful event.

Have you time to spare this coming Sunday? If so, be sure to visit UCG (Bailey Allen Hall) between 11am and 6pm on Sunday November 21st, for the Galway Science and Technology Exhibition. Fun for all the family, and it's all FREE!!!!

Our Halloween Walk

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Friday, October 22nd, 2010

We had a wonderful sponsored walk. A huge Well Done and Thank You to all who dressed up, collected money, made or bought costumes, came out to see us walking and were part of our very exciting event. Check out individual classes for tons of photos of our walk.

Congratulations

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Congratulations to Jane Mc Loughlin who won Teacher of Primary Science Award 2010. Jane is the only person to win this years award in Ireland or England (and the first Irish primary school teacher). Presentation of the awards was at the Institute of Physics Awards event in London in September. We are all so proud of Jane, it couldn't be awarded to a more dedicated and deservering teacher. Well done from Eileen and all the staff and children in Scoil Chaitriona Junior.

Visit the Institute of Physics (UK) site on http://www.iop.org/
View Award winners on http://www.iop.org/about/awards/index.html
View Teacher of Primary Science awards on http://www.iop.org/about/awards/additional/primary/page_38692.html
Visit the Institute of Physics of Ireland site on www.iopireland.org
Photo shows Jane being presented with her award by Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the president of the Institute of Physics.
Video to be seen at http://www.blip.tv/file/4215837 or at http://www.iop.org/resources/videos/people-and-events/page_45063.html
News article from the Institue of Physics in Ireland at http://www.iopireland.org/news/2010/page_48862.html
See the account of the event on the Discover Primary Science newsletter http://www.primaryscience.ie/resources_enewsletter_edition21_art5.php
Other information from IOP is at http://www.scienceday.org/about/awards/additional/primary/winners/page_45060.html
Article from Galway Advertiser 21/10/10 http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/32364
From the Galway Science and Technology festival 2010 brochure http://www.galwayscience.ie/news/jane-mcloughlin-awarded-teacher-primary-science-award-2010
From St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra http://www.spd.dcu.ie/main/news/JaneMcLoughlin.shtml

Galway Science and Technology Festival 2010 http://www.galwayscience.ie/2010-galway-science-technology-festival-person-of-the-year/

Last note of term

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"Hi" to our friends from all round the world

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Congratulations

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To all the teachers and pupils of Scoil Chaitríona Junior who were awarded our Award of Science and Maths Excellence. A big THANK YOU to Dr. Malachy Thompson who presented us with our award, and who gave 2 amazing "Flashes and Bangs" demonstrations today.

For more photos see our science page article on
http://scoilchaitrionajnrscience.blogspot.com/2010/06/award-of-science-and-maths-excellence.html

Retirement Mass

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Our principal, Mrs. Eileen Costello will be retiring this summer.

We will be celebrating a mass in her honour

on Tuesday 29th June

at 11am

in Renmore Church

All are most welcome to come and join us in this celebration.

Pet Day in Scoil Chaitríona Jnr

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Today, we were very lucky. People from pet world came to visit some children in Scoil Chaitríona Jnr. They taught us about different and unusual animals. It was very interesting. We saw a rabbit, a guinea pig, a snake and a bearded Dragon. We learned how to look after pets. We also got to feel the different animals. Here are some pictures of the animals we saw. Thank you to all at petworld.

Bearded Dragon

white rabbit

Snake

Guinea Pig

Some children in 2nd class brought their own pets in. There are more photos on their class page
http://scoilchaitrionajnrmisscostello.blogspot.com/

Senior Infant Sports Day

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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Click on the photo pages to enlarge the photos. Lots more photos of the sports day can be seen on: http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2010/06/senior-infant-sports-day-heats-finals.html and http://scoilchaitrionajnrmsmcloughlin.blogspot.com/2010/06/room-5s-participation-in-sports-day.html

First Communions in Renmore

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A very hearty Congratulations to the girls and boys of the 2nd classes, who made their communion in Renmore church this May. You were fantastic (and you looked gorgeous too!). A very special Congratulations to your teachers for all the hard work they did in preparing you for your special day. Well done to all!

Our friends from all round the world!

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School Days and Holidays 09/10

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Our new prize

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Thursday, April 29th, 2010
Many thanks to Ray Walshe of Cara office supplies and to Galway City Tribune for the wonderful prize of a new printer for the school. We are so thrilled to get it. Thanks!

Senior School Band

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Friday, March 12th,2010

Today the Senior School marching band marched round Renmore. It was really thrilling. We made St. Patrick's Day headbands and went out to watch the parade. We watched it when it started, and again as it finished. The day was cloudy, and much cooler than recent days, but it was still nice. We really enjoyed watching the band. Well done to all in the senior school for putting on such a great parade for us!

Féile Scoildrámaíochta - Drama Competition

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Friday, 12th February 2010

Results were on the radio at 6pm (instead of at 6:30)! Unfortunately Scoil Chaitríona were not among this year's prizewinners, but both classes did us proud on Tuesday! A hearty Congratulations to all involved!!! You were great!!!!

Tuesday, 9th February 2010

Well done to Ms. McLoughlin's Senior Infant class and to Ms. Tierney's Junior Infant class who represented our school and performed so well at today's Féile Scoildrámaíochta. It was a terrific day - our bus left to go to Inverin at 9am (an early start for all, so that costumes and make-up could be on before we left). We really enjoyed watching the two plays before ours - a musical about penguins by a 3rd or 4th class, and a musical about Jack and the Beanstalk by a Junior Infant class. They were both great.Our plays went very well too. We are delighted.Results for all the plays will be announced on Radio na Gaeltachta (an Irish Language radio station) on Friday at 6:30pm. Teachers will know the results early next week.Well done to all our children, and to all the parents who provided the costumes, our fan club parents who came to support us, to Anne and Nessa who did our make up, to Len for the fabulous sets, to Ane and all the teachers and SNAs who worked so hard to help us in our dramas.

Congratulations to all!

Happy Holidays

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The staff of Scoil Chaitríona Junior wish all our pupils and parents a wonderful Christmas, and the best of good wishes for 2010. We hope you all enjoy the holidays! We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, January 7th when school reopens after the holidays.

Carol Service

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Cancelled, due to bad weather

Scoil Chaitríona Junior carol serviceCancelled due to bad weather conditions

Pinocchio Pantomime

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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Everyone in the school got to see a wonderful pantomime in school today. A theatre company came to the school to show us their version of Pinocchio. It was fantastic. We got to join in the fun, and some of us even got a chance to be on stage.

New Award for our Website

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The Frog Related award: from St. Columba's College in Dublin http://blog.sccscience.com/

Congratulations

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Congratulations to Scoil Chaitríona Junior website on gaining an award as:
by http://gigglepotz.com/

Hallowe'en Walk

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Friday, October 23rd, 2009

We had our Hallowe'en walk today. Most of the children and teachers in the school dressed up in fancy dress clothes. Our walk is a sponsored walk - it is not too far but it is great fun. We hope we didn't scare anyone going by. A huge "Thank You" to all who participated, made costumes, got children dressed up, and especially to all who sponsored us in today's walk,

Hallowe'en Walk

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It is October and all classes are beginning to get ready for Hallowe'en. Watch out for great Hallowe'en art all round the school. The highlight of Hallowe'en for us is our annual fundraiser - our "Hallowe'en Walk". We will be dressing up for Hallowe'en and walking round Renmore on the morning of Friday 23rd October. Thanks to all for help with the sponsorship money, and with the costumes. See you all on the 23rd!

Award for Scoil Chaitríona Junior

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Monday, 28th September, 2009

We are thrilled to have a won the 2009 Greenwave Photograph Award for 2009, with our photo of frogs in frogspawn. Today we were pleased and honoured to have Éanna Ní Lamhna from Greenwave, Oonagh Meeghan from Discover Science and Engineering, and Andrew the photographer, all the way from Dublin to present us with our prize. We won a tripod, a camera case, and a video camera which we will use to take lots of video footage of our science work, and other exciting events in our school. Both Oonagh and Éanna talked to us about science and being scientists. They were so interesting. Well done to all the students and teachers who watch the buds, birds and frogs in spring and who take part in the Greenwave programme each year.

Winning Photograph

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Congratulations to Scoil Chaitríona Junior for all the work done on the Greenwave programme this year, and to all the teachers who submitted photographs to the Greenwave site. We are delighted to have one of our photos chosen as the winner of the frogspawn category, and overall winning photo this year. To see our picture and other winners, please follow this link to the Greenwave gallery site: http://www.greenwave.ie/index.php?p=gallery&q=winners2009

New School Laptop

2009-06-24T06:22:00.000-07:00

A hearty "Well Done and Thank You" to all the parents and children who donated the old mobile phones to the school in aid of the Menningitis Research Foundation. The school received a new Dell laptop in recognition of our large collection.

Second Green Flag

2009-05-26T13:14:00.001-07:00

Congratulations to all at Scoil Chaitríona Junior for being awarded their second Green Flag. We are very proud of this achievement and would like to thank all who are doing their best to ensure we have a green and clean school!

School Calendar 2008/2009

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More Drama News

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Féile Náisiúnta Dráma

Comhairdeachas

Congratulations on the Success

of the Drama in the All-Ireland finals!

Teach Ró-Bheag

A very hearty congratulations to Ms. McLoughlin's Senior Infants (Room 5), who did our school proud in all 3 levels of the Féile Scoildrámaíochta. They participated in the All-Ireland finals of the drama festival, in Mullingar on Thursday, April 23rd, 2009. They were superb, and a fantastic day was had by all.

Well done too, especially to Ms.Cunningham for all her help with the music, to Len for the fantastic sets, to Anne for our great make up, to Ms.Carleton, Ms. Long, Ms. Hynes, Maura and Mrs. Smith for your help and support, and to all our parents for the wonderful costumes. It was truly a magnificent team effort. Míle buíochas díbh go léir.

Comhgairdeachas Arís

Congratulations Again

to our Senior Infant classes from Rooms 7 and 5 who represented our school so wonderfully in the Connacht finals of An Féile Scoildrámaíochta, yesterday, March 11th. Both classes performed so well and each actor and actress was superb!! Maith sibh go léir.

Exciting news: Room 5 are through to the All Ireland Finals of the Féile in Mullingar at the end of April. Well done to everyone who has put so much time, effort and enthusiasm into making this such an exciting Dráma for everyone.

Míle Buíochas le gach duine a thug an-cabhair dúinn.

Go néirí libh sa chéad comórtas eile.

Na Drámaí

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Comhgairdeachas

Congratulations to Ms. Long's Senior Infants for a fantastic performance in yesterday's competition. Our school is so proud of all of you. This class are through to the next round of the Féile Scoildrámaíochta, in Castlebar, on either 10th, 11th or 12th of March!

Congratulations too to the budding actors and actresses of Ms. McLoughlin's Senior Infants class, who are also through to the next round of the Féile Scoildrámaíochta!!!

Maith sibh go léir, agus go néirí an t-adh libh sa chéad comórtas eile.

Féile Scoildrámaíochta

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Senior infants from Ms. Long's class (Room 7 with Sleeping Beauty) and Senior infants from Ms. McLoughlin's class (Room 5 with A Squash and a Squeeze) are performing plays in Irish for a competition on Thursday, 26th February.
Beidh Codladh Céad Bliain agus Teach Ró-Bheag sna comórtais drámaíochta in Indreabhán ar Déardaoin seo chugainn. Tá neart cleachtadh á dhéanamh acu na laethannta seo. Go néirí an t-adh leo leis na drámaí.

We wish them the best of luck on Thursday. May you do your best, and have a lot of fun doing it!

TV3 - News 11th February, 2009

2009-02-12T13:38:00.000-08:00

Scoil Chaitríona Junior is set to lose our Special Education Class. TV3 News reported on the latest education cuts. Click on the link below to see TV3 News bulletin from February 11th, 2009
TV3 - Video

Carol Service

2008-12-18T00:37:00.000-08:00

We had our Carol Service last night (Wednesday, 17th of December). It was just lovely. The children sang so well, the junior infants looked gorgeous dressed up as people and animals from the Nativity Story and the "Amen" dance at the end was spectacular. Well done to all the children, teachers and parents who put so much time and effort into making the night a really special one.

Book Fair

2008-12-01T06:07:00.001-08:00

Book FairMonday 1st December to Friday 5th 2008

This week is Book Fair week in our school. We had an author and poet Pete Mollinaux visit our school today. He did some interesting drama with us, told us stories, showed us a rainmaker, sang a song on a guitar and told us always to use our imaginations. He was great! All this week we can visit the hall and see the books in the fair (with our parents if we like). We can buy the books. Money raised goes towards buying books for the school. Such a great cause!

Beauty and the Beast

2008-11-26T06:07:00.000-08:00

Today our school had a visit from a Theatre Group. They performed the pantomime "Beauty and the Beast".It was a marvellous show and we really enjoyed it. Some of us will be in the Renmore version of Beauty and the Beast and will be performing in the Town Hall Theatre in Galway at the start of January 2009.

Protest Rally

2008-11-06T12:04:00.000-08:00

How do you feel about the edudational changes in the budget?
Did you know that :

Class sizes will be increased. This will mean that thousands of children will be in classes of over 30

Each shool will only be allowed two English as an Additional Language Teachers irrespective of the number of non English speaking students in the school

From Jan 1st there will be no substitute cover for teachers on uncertified sick leave. This will lead to serious disruption in schools as the class(es) of the absent teacher(s) will have to be divided.

The free book grant for families with financial difficulties is abolished.
Funding for special equipment and library books will not now be given to schools.

The Plan for Students with Special Educational Needs has been delayed. This will delay improvements for children with special needs in our school.

In order to voice our disapproval of these changes, parents and teachers in Galway are attending a Protest Rally on Saturday 8th November. We will assemble in Eyre Square at 1:45pm. In the interests of your children, we strongly urge you to attend. Be your child's voice.

There was a great turnout for the protest on Saturday. And a big Thank you to those who attended to support us on this important cause. We were all wrapped up for the march as the weather was awful but that did not lessen the crowd. Lets hope it makes a difference!

Witches Walk

2008-10-25T03:18:00.000-07:00

Friday, 24th October, 2008 The weather was windy, but dry and sunny (weren't we lucky). Witches, vampires, princesses, ghosts and many other assorted people arrived at school to take part in our annual "Witches Walk".
It was a thoroughly enjoyable walk, and we made lots of money for the school and for charity. (Total to be announced when all the money is in). Well done to all the children, parents and teachers for the huge effort involved in getting everyone dressed up, and for the money raised.

Witches Walk

2008-10-02T13:39:00.000-07:00

If you live in Renmore watch out for witches, ghosts, monsters, princesses, fairies and mummies at the end of October.......because at the end of October Scoil Chaitríona Junior pupils (and teachers) will be out on our Witches Walk. It is a chance for all to dress up, to go for a short walk, and to help raise some much needed funds for our school and for charity. We are all looking forward to our sponsored walk, it is one of the fun highlights of our school year. Please support us if you can. Thank you.

Congratulations again to Room 5!

2008-04-07T06:31:00.001-07:00

We have just heard that Sleeping Beauty (Codladh Céad Bliain) is heading to Mullingar! Well done to Ms. McLoughlin's senior infants for their great teamwork in getting to the All Ireland Drama finals in Mullingar on Friday, April 25th at 12:30! Go néirí an t-adh libh.

Féile Scoildrámaíochta Congratulations

2008-03-10T13:00:00.000-07:00

Scoil Chaitríona Junior is taking part (for the first time) in the Féile Scoildrámaíochta. Well done to the two classes who took to the stage in the Temperance Hall in Loughrea on March 4th. Here are the terrific results:

Ms. Lavery's class (1st) came 1st in their group with their drama Na Trí Mhuc (The Three Little Pigs)

Ms. McLoughlin's class (senior infants) are through to the Connacht finals in Castlebar at the start of April with their play Codladh Céad Bliain (Sleeping Beauty)

Victory Adebayo from Ms. McLoughlin's class won a Best Actress Award for her part as the evil fairy in Sleeping Beauty

Scoil Chaitríona Junior won the award for the best newcomers to the Féile

A very hearty CONGRATULATIONS to all who were involved in both plays, and especially to Mr. Len Wright for his help with the wonderful sets and props, and to Anne Power for her expertise with all our make-up.

School Calendar 07/08

2007-12-22T13:27:00.001-08:00

Galway City Council

2007-12-12T05:43:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to all our students who entered the Galway City Litter Art Competition. Our school won €250 because so many of our students entered the art competition. Well done to all for the wonderful pictures.A special congratulations to Rebecca O'Connell from Mrs. Canney's class for being one of the prizewinners. Keep an eye out for her picture in March on the calendar.

Junior School Carol Service

2007-12-10T00:40:00.000-08:00

Our carol service was so special. We had our carol service in the church on the evening of December 19th. It was a lovely ceremony and all the children sang and read so beautifully. Well done to all who came, all who dressed up and all who practised so hard for the last few weeks to make the ceremony so special.

Meeting Mrs. McAleese

2007-11-17T02:36:00.000-08:00

On Thursday, November 15th Scoil Chaitríona Junior were invited to join in the 10 year celebrations of Science Week in Galway. Mrs. McAleese is the president of Ireland. She came too. Senior Infants Room 5 went to represent our school. We met Mrs. McAleese and her husband. They are really nice. They shook our hands and chatted to us. We got to make wonderful wind turbines with Dick and Anne from Rude Mechanicals and we got a present of a lovely yellow Science Week T-shirt each. It was such a great occasion. Some of us were even on Friday's Irish Times newspaper.

Our African School

2007-11-16T05:04:00.000-08:00

Did you know? We are linked with Nyabbani school in Uganda. It's lovely having friends so far away. Here is a photo of them. We sent our first batch of letters and pictures to them this week. They will be very excited to get our letters and we can't wait to get their replies!

Mobile Farm

2007-11-07T06:21:00.001-08:00

The mobile farm came to visit our school today. We really enjoyed the visit. We got to see Rosie the Donkey, Jasmine the Duck, Cloe the Goose,Megan the black hen, Daisy the cow and her son Bob, Babe the Pig, Rodger the Rabbit and Dolly the Sheep.
We got to see and pet all the animals and some of us even had Jasmine the duck on our shoulders or our heads when she was out for her walk.
Rosie the Donkey showed us her very brown teeth. We can see why we need to brush our teeth every day, we don't want them turning brown like Rosie's.

Witches Walk

2007-10-26T02:42:00.001-07:00

On October 26th, our whole school went on our Witches Walk around Renmore. Everyone (even the teachers) dressed up. It was great fun. Well done to all for the money you raised for charity and for the school. We very much appreciate the time and effort you as parents put in to dressing up your children so well and helping with the sponsorship for the walk.

First Communion

2007-05-02T00:20:00.000-07:00

First communion in Scoil Chaitríona Junior was on Saturday, April 27th, 07. We had an absolutely wonderful day. Well done to all who made their communion, to the wonderful 1st class choir, and to the priests, teachers and parents who helped to make this day so special